Riot police clashed with about 100 angry activists and detained a dozen of them on Wednesday during an unsanctioned demonstration in Yerevan against Armenia’s accession to a Russian-led customs union.
Samvel Aleksanian, one of Armenia’s richest businessmen close to the government, rallied hundreds of his employees and other supporters on Monday in response to renewed protests against his controversial efforts to redesign Yerevan’s central covered market.
Five youth activists claimed to have been beaten up by unknown men over the weekend in what their leaders called a government-backed attempt to intimidate participants of a month-long sit-in outside the Yerevan Mayor’s Office.
Trial prosecutors demanded on Monday that a former Armenian presidential candidate be sentenced to 12 years in prison for plotting to assassinate Paruyr Hayrikian, a veteran politician who also ran in the February 18 ballot.
Russia’s Gazprom energy giant has expressed readiness to lower the price of its natural gas supplied to Armenia in return for gaining full ownership of the country’s gas distribution network.
Russia and Armenia gave a further boost to their defense cooperation on Tuesday with a new agreement that appears to facilitate continued Russian arms supplies to the Armenian army.
The man who confessed to shooting and wounding Paruyr Hayrikian insisted on Wednesday that he did not intend to kill the Soviet-era dissident who ran in Armenia’s recent presidential election.
A former Armenian presidential candidate charged with plotting to assassinate another hopeful received a major boost to his claims of innocence during his ongoing trial on Friday.
The parliamentary leader of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has come under fire from his opposition colleagues after publicly insulting one of them during a session of the National Assembly last week.
A self-styled scholar who ran in Armenia’s recent presidential election went on trial on Tuesday on charges of organizing an apparent attempt on the life of another outsider candidate, Paruyr Hayrikian.
Observers from the Council of Europe were cautious on Monday in evaluating the weekend municipal elections in Yerevan, praising technical aspects of their conduct but reserving judgment on their freedom and fairness.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
An Armenian police agency drawing up the national voter registry on Tuesday denied opposition allegations that thousands of provincial residents loyal to the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will be illegally allowed to vote in Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
A new opposition alliance led by Raffi Hovannisian criticized some of the other political groups challenging the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming local elections in Yerevan and ruled out pre-election cooperation with them on Thursday.
A close associate of Raffi Hovannisian rounded on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday for dismissing as unserious anti-government protests held by the fellow opposition leader after the recent presidential election.
The Armenian police warned on Monday that they will use force against opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and his supporters if the latter march towards the presidential palace in Yerevan during President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration on Tuesday.
Very high voter turnout and huge margins of President Serzh Sarkisian’s victory registered by election bodies in many communities across Armenia are not an indication of fraud in last month’s presidential ballot, a senior pro-government lawmaker said on Monday.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Saturday questioned the credibility of official results of Armenia’s presidential election, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian benefited from “implausibly high” voter turnout recorded in many precincts.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian declared fellow opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian the rightful winner of Armenia’s presidential election but remained in no rush to join his campaign of anti-government protests on Saturday.
An Armenian presidential candidate who has been on a hunger strike for the past three weeks on Monday accused election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation Europe Monday of turning a blind eye to fraud.
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